3 Feb 2010

Oracle Hacker Gets The Last Word


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David Litchfield

ARLINGTON, Va. -- In 2001, Larry Ellison brashly proclaimed in a keynote speech at the computing conference Comdex that his database software was "unbreakable." David Litchfield has devoted the last nine years to making the Oracle chief executive regret that marketing stunt.

At the Black Hat security conference Tuesday afternoon, Litchfield unveiled a new bug in Oracle's 11G database software, a critical, unpatched vulnerability that would allow a hacker to take control of an Oracle database and access or modify information at any security level. "Anything that God can do on that database, you can do," Litchfield told Forbes in an interview following his talk.

22 Jan 2010

Revenge Is Sweet (And Expensive) When Its Public

Spurned mistress gets revenge by plastering major US cities with posters of herself and lover after he returns to his wife. Even goes as far as setting up a website containing all their love letters and holidays pictures.

She ends up spending £150 000 on the campaign which succeeds in embarassing the Obama advisor, who also happens to be a director of Oracle Corporation.

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